Active Directory Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Active Directory Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Microsoft Active Directory Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 468 624
Rank change year-on-year +133 +156 -155
Contract jobs requiring an Active Directory Specialist 17 2 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.008% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.008% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 9
10th Percentile £515 - £455
25th Percentile £603 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +37.50%
75th Percentile £608 - £575
90th Percentile - - £588
UK median daily rate £605 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.76% +23.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Active Directory Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Active Directory Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Directory Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Active Directory Specialist.

Active Directory Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Active Directory Specialist over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Active Directory Specialist daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Directory Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Active Directory Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Active Directory Specialist in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 17 (100.00%) RBAC
2 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
3 15 (88.24%) DNS
3 15 (88.24%) DHCP
3 15 (88.24%) Windows
3 15 (88.24%) Agile
3 15 (88.24%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (88.24%) Windows Server
3 15 (88.24%) Social Skills
3 15 (88.24%) Entra ID
4 14 (82.35%) Privileged Identity Management
4 14 (82.35%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (82.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (82.35%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (82.35%) Azure Storage
4 14 (82.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (82.35%) Bicep
4 14 (82.35%) ARM Templates
4 14 (82.35%) Log Analytics
4 14 (82.35%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
4 14 (82.35%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 14 (82.35%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (82.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (82.35%) PowerShell
4 14 (82.35%) Kubernetes
4 14 (82.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (82.35%) Analytics

Active Directory Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 15 (88.24%) Entra ID
2 15 (88.24%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (82.35%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (82.35%) Azure Storage
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (88.24%) DHCP
1 15 (88.24%) DNS
2 14 (82.35%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) LAN
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
General
1 15 (88.24%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (82.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (82.35%) PKI
1 14 (82.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
1 15 (88.24%) Windows Server
2 14 (82.35%) Linux
2 14 (82.35%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (82.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) RBAC
2 15 (88.24%) Agile
3 14 (82.35%) Analytics
3 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
3 14 (82.35%) DevOps
3 14 (82.35%) Identity Management
3 14 (82.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (82.35%) ITIL
3 14 (82.35%) Log Analytics
3 14 (82.35%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 14 (82.35%) Privileged Identity Management
3 14 (82.35%) Release Management
3 14 (82.35%) Service Management
4 1 (5.88%) Change Management
4 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
4 1 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Migration
4 1 (5.88%) Project Management
4 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Bicep
1 14 (82.35%) C#
1 14 (82.35%) PowerShell
1 14 (82.35%) VB
1 14 (82.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Degree
1 14 (82.35%) DV Cleared
1 14 (82.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 14 (82.35%) SC Cleared
1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 17 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (82.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (82.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 14 (82.35%) Kubernetes
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft Intune
1 14 (82.35%) SCCM
1 14 (82.35%) SCOM
1 14 (82.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) VMware